Section 8-134a - Allocation of taxes on real or personal property in a redevelopment projectAny redevelopment plan authorized under this chapter or any proceedings authorizing the issuance of bonds under this chapter may contain a provision that taxes, if any, identified in such plan or such authorizing proceedings and levied upon taxable real or personal property, or both, in a redevelopment project each year, or payments in lieu of such taxes authorized pursuant to chapter 114, or both, by or for the benefit of any one or more municipalities, districts, or other public taxing agencies after the effective date of the ordinance approving the redevelopment plan or such bond authorizing proceedings, as the case may be, shall be divided as follows:
(1) In each fiscal year that portion of the taxes or payments in lieu of taxes, or both, which would be produced by applying the then current tax rate of each of the taxing agencies to the total sum of the assessed value of the taxable property in the redevelopment project on the effective date of such ordinance or the date of such authorizing proceedings, as the case may be, or on any date between such two dates which is identified in such proceedings, shall be allocated to and when collected shall be paid into the funds of the respective taxing agencies in the same manner as taxes by or for said taxing agencies on all other property are paid; and (2) that portion of the assessed taxes or payments in lieu of taxes, or both, each fiscal year in excess of the amount referred to in subdivision (1) of this section shall be allocated to and when collected shall be paid into a special fund of the municipality or Connecticut Innovations, Incorporated as issuer of such bonds to be used in each fiscal year, first to pay the principal of and interest due in such fiscal year on loans, moneys advanced to, or indebtedness, whether funded, refunded, assumed, or otherwise, incurred by such municipality or Connecticut Innovations, Incorporated as issuer of such bonds to finance or refinance in whole or in part, such redevelopment project, and then, at the option of the municipality or Connecticut Innovations, Incorporated as issuer of such bonds, to purchase bonds issued for the project which has generated the increments in taxes or payments in lieu of taxes and then, at the option of the municipality or Connecticut Innovations, Incorporated as issuer of such bonds, to reimburse the provider of or reimbursement party with respect to any guarantee, letter of credit, policy of bond insurance, funds deposited in a debt service reserve fund, funds deposited as capitalized interest or other credit enhancement device used to secure payment of debt service on any bonds, notes or other indebtedness of a municipality or Connecticut Innovations, Incorporated as issuer of such bonds issued pursuant to section 8-134 to finance or refinance such redevelopment project, to the extent of any payments of debt service made therefrom. Unless and until the total assessed valuation of the taxable property in a redevelopment project exceeds the total assessed value of the taxable property in such project as shown by the last assessment list, referred to in subdivision (1) of this section, all of the taxes levied and collected and all of the payments in lieu of taxes due and collected upon the taxable property in such redevelopment project shall be paid into the funds of the respective taxing agencies. When such loans, advances, and indebtedness, if any, and interest thereon, and such debt service reimbursement to the provider of or reimbursement party with respect to such credits, have been paid, in full, all moneys thereafter received from taxes or payments in lieu of taxes, or both, upon the taxable property in such redevelopment project shall be paid into the funds of the respective taxing agencies in the same manner as taxes on all other property are paid.Conn. Gen. Stat. § 8-134a
(P.A. 74-319, S. 2; P.A. 87-572, S. 2, 5; P.A. 88-233, S. 2, 5; P.A. 98-237, S. 2; June 12 Sp. Sess. P.A. 12-1, S. 152.)